An Efficient Dynamic-Decision Based Task Scheduler for Task Offloading Optimization and Energy Management in Mobile Cloud Computing

• Published in: Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 21; no. 13; p. 4527
• Main Authors: Ali, Abid, Iqbal, Muhammad Munawar, Jamil, Harun, Qayyum, Faiza, Jabbar, Sohail, Cheikhrouhou, Omar, Baz, Mohammed, Jamil, Faisal
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 01-07-2021; MDPI AG
• Subjects: cloud virtual machines; fault tolerance; mobile cloud computing; offloading; task scheduling
• ISSN: 1424-8220; 1424-8220
• DOI: 10.3390/s21134527

Restricted abilities of mobile devices in terms of storage, computation, time, energy supply, and transmission causes issues related to energy optimization and time management while processing tasks on mobile phones. This issue pertains to multifarious mobile device-related dimensions, including mobile cloud computing, fog computing, and edge computing. On the contrary, mobile devices’ dearth of storage and processing power originates several issues for optimal energy and time management. These problems intensify the process of task retaining and offloading on mobile devices. This paper presents a novel task scheduling algorithm that addresses energy consumption and time execution by proposing an energy-efficient dynamic decision-based method. The proposed model quickly adapts to the cloud computing tasks and energy and time computation of mobile devices. Furthermore, we present a novel task scheduling server that performs the offloading computation process on the cloud, enhancing the mobile device’s decision-making ability and computational performance during task offloading. The process of task scheduling harnesses the proposed empirical algorithm. The outcomes of this study enable effective task scheduling wherein energy consumption and task scheduling reduces significantly.